Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,511 6,241 7,272
As % of all contract jobs in England 19.03% 23.13% 19.51%
As % of the General category 34.48% 36.26% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,406 4,202 5,069
10th Percentile £360 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 112 232
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.42 £13.24
25th Percentile £19.69 £20.97 £15.72
Median hourly rate £39.00 £36.51 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +21.70% -
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £38.12
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.13 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £32.70 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.30% +8.98% -

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 24,687 17,210 21,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.21% 63.78% 57.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,906 11,035 13,658
10th Percentile £313 £282 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -3.38% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,786 874 1,756
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.01 £16.37 £15.92
Median hourly rate £33.06 £27.13 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -17.80% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.38 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £31.97
% change year-on-year +19.82% -15.15% +6.57%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 9 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,091 £577 -3.83% 3,549
North of England 0 1,314 £500 +7.53% 897
South East 0 733 £500 -4.76% 990
North West +4 683 £475 +5.56% 484
Midlands +1 667 £500 +11.11% 477
Yorkshire 0 581 £525 +7.42% 297
West Midlands +1 493 £500 - 275
South West -4 384 £525 -4.55% 1,058
East of England +6 211 £525 -8.70% 285
East Midlands 0 166 £494 +16.18% 201
North East -16 51 £500 +13.64% 123
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 292 (3.43%) Confluence
2 208 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 80 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 69 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 48 (0.56%) Apache
6 43 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.34%) SAS
8 27 (0.32%) CMS
9 24 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.18%) CICS
11 14 (0.16%) IIS
12 13 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.13%) Camunda
13 11 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 11 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.082%) Appian
15 6 (0.070%) Hyperledger
16 5 (0.059%) WebLogic
17 4 (0.047%) HCL Notes
17 4 (0.047%) WordPress
Applications
1 452 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 182 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 154 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 145 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
5 102 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 58 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
7 37 (0.43%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.059%) Sketch
9 4 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.047%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.047%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.035%) Notion
10 3 (0.035%) Trello
11 2 (0.023%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.023%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.023%) EngageOne
11 2 (0.023%) Final Cut Pro
11 2 (0.023%) InVision
12 1 (0.012%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 321 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 110 (1.29%) NetSuite
3 100 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
4 86 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
5 75 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
6 69 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 49 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
7 49 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
8 44 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
9 41 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
10 39 (0.46%) Aladdin
11 36 (0.42%) SAP FI
12 29 (0.34%) Workday HCM
13 28 (0.33%) SAP CO
14 26 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
14 26 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
15 25 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
16 23 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
16 23 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
17 21 (0.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,352 (15.89%) Azure
2 989 (11.62%) AWS
3 573 (6.73%) Power Platform
4 440 (5.17%) GCP
5 290 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
6 286 (3.36%) SaaS
7 251 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
8 231 (2.71%) GitHub
9 190 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
10 181 (2.13%) Snowflake
11 171 (2.01%) Entra ID
12 134 (1.57%) Serverless
13 114 (1.34%) Amazon S3
14 98 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
14 98 (1.15%) Power Automate
15 95 (1.12%) dbt
16 89 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
17 88 (1.03%) OCI
18 87 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
19 84 (0.99%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 159 (1.87%) Firewall
2 130 (1.53%) Network Security
3 78 (0.92%) VPN
4 75 (0.88%) DNS
5 57 (0.67%) TCP/IP
6 50 (0.59%) WAN
7 41 (0.48%) BGP
8 37 (0.43%) SSL
9 34 (0.40%) DHCP
10 33 (0.39%) LAN
11 31 (0.36%) HTTP
12 28 (0.33%) Multicast
12 28 (0.33%) OSPF
13 23 (0.27%) MPLS
14 22 (0.26%) Internet
15 21 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (0.20%) VLAN
16 17 (0.20%) VSAN
16 17 (0.20%) Wireless
17 16 (0.19%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 492 (5.78%) Power BI
2 248 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 235 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 170 (2.00%) Metadata
5 164 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
6 150 (1.76%) Relational Database
7 128 (1.50%) Tableau
8 119 (1.40%) Data Lake
9 82 (0.96%) NoSQL
10 74 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
11 67 (0.79%) Oracle Database
12 64 (0.75%) Big Data
13 59 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 51 (0.60%) MongoDB
15 50 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
16 47 (0.55%) Power Query
17 45 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 43 (0.51%) Delta Lake
19 41 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
20 39 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 603 (7.08%) JIRA
2 223 (2.62%) Git
3 161 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 92 (1.08%) GitLab
5 54 (0.63%) JUnit
6 48 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 44 (0.52%) Selenium
8 28 (0.33%) Postman
8 28 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 25 (0.29%) REST Assured
10 23 (0.27%) ERwin
10 23 (0.27%) SonarQube
11 22 (0.26%) Visual Studio
12 21 (0.25%) Maven
13 19 (0.22%) MLflow
14 17 (0.20%) TeamCity
15 16 (0.19%) Bitbucket
15 16 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
15 16 (0.19%) Zephyr
16 15 (0.18%) Gradle
General
1 2,495 (29.32%) Social Skills
2 1,605 (18.86%) Banking
3 1,165 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 485 (5.70%) Public Sector
5 400 (4.70%) Legal
6 338 (3.97%) Financial Institution
7 324 (3.81%) Investment Banking
8 316 (3.71%) Front Office
9 291 (3.42%) Retail
10 288 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
11 219 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
12 202 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
13 161 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 156 (1.83%) Local Government
15 152 (1.79%) Manufacturing
16 140 (1.64%) Billing
17 137 (1.61%) General Ledger
18 131 (1.54%) Marketing
19 128 (1.50%) Law
20 119 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,248 (14.66%) Analyst
2 944 (11.09%) Senior
3 920 (10.81%) Lead
4 857 (10.07%) Developer
5 798 (9.38%) Architect
6 634 (7.45%) Business Analyst
7 620 (7.28%) Project Manager
8 549 (6.45%) Consultant
9 302 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
10 295 (3.47%) Data Engineer
11 217 (2.55%) Senior Manager
12 196 (2.30%) Financial Analyst
13 181 (2.13%) Accountant
14 180 (2.11%) Data Analyst
14 180 (2.11%) Java Developer
15 168 (1.97%) IT Manager
16 167 (1.96%) Programme Manager
17 165 (1.94%) Software Engineer
18 161 (1.89%) Finance Manager
19 155 (1.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 268 (3.15%) REST
2 257 (3.02%) .NET
3 254 (2.98%) React
4 233 (2.74%) Kafka
5 190 (2.23%) Oracle Fusion
6 181 (2.13%) Middleware
7 159 (1.87%) Spring
8 149 (1.75%) Spring Boot
9 120 (1.41%) RESTful
10 110 (1.29%) Redux
11 107 (1.26%) PySpark
12 106 (1.25%) Node.js
13 84 (0.99%) AngularJS
14 80 (0.94%) JSON
15 78 (0.92%) OAuth
16 67 (0.79%) XML
17 62 (0.73%) CSS
18 59 (0.69%) HTML
19 58 (0.68%) .NET Framework
19 58 (0.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 411 (4.83%) Onboarding
2 378 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 362 (4.25%) Cloud Native
4 236 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 205 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 194 (2.28%) Data Structures
7 165 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 163 (1.92%) Fixed Income
9 159 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
10 157 (1.84%) Derivative
11 148 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
12 144 (1.69%) Data Centre
13 133 (1.56%) Virtual Team
14 118 (1.39%) Equities
15 115 (1.35%) AI Agents
16 113 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
17 103 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
18 101 (1.19%) Public Cloud
19 98 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
20 92 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 293 (3.44%) Windows
2 258 (3.03%) Linux
3 142 (1.67%) Unix
4 63 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 38 (0.45%) Solaris
6 35 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 35 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 33 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 31 (0.36%) zOS
9 29 (0.34%) Android
10 25 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 18 (0.21%) AIX
12 8 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
12 8 (0.094%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.094%) VMS
13 6 (0.070%) HPUX
13 6 (0.070%) SUSE
14 5 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.047%) MVS
16 3 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,874 (22.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,754 (20.61%) Agile
3 1,194 (14.03%) Migration
4 1,106 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
5 1,008 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 961 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 926 (10.88%) AI
8 920 (10.81%) DevOps
9 896 (10.53%) CI/CD
10 858 (10.08%) Analytics
11 838 (9.85%) ERP
12 790 (9.28%) Decision-Making
13 730 (8.58%) Roadmaps
14 723 (8.49%) Validation
15 708 (8.32%) Data Modelling
16 705 (8.28%) Project Management
17 660 (7.75%) User Acceptance Testing
18 630 (7.40%) Change Management
19 616 (7.24%) Business Intelligence
20 550 (6.46%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,170 (13.75%) SQL
2 1,041 (12.23%) Python
3 579 (6.80%) Java
4 361 (4.24%) C#
5 252 (2.96%) TypeScript
6 241 (2.83%) JavaScript
7 205 (2.41%) PowerShell
8 83 (0.98%) Bash
9 79 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 72 (0.85%) Go
11 71 (0.83%) C++
12 69 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 61 (0.72%) Shell Script
14 57 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 50 (0.59%) VBA
16 47 (0.55%) Scala
17 39 (0.46%) Bicep
18 34 (0.40%) Apex Code
19 31 (0.36%) Kotlin
20 26 (0.31%) Rust
Qualifications
1 677 (7.95%) Security Cleared
2 672 (7.90%) Degree
3 484 (5.69%) SC Cleared
4 215 (2.53%) PMP
5 194 (2.28%) ACCA
6 187 (2.20%) PMI Certification
7 171 (2.01%) CIMA
8 160 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 145 (1.70%) CISSP
10 121 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 98 (1.15%) DV Cleared
12 85 (1.00%) Azure Certification
13 81 (0.95%) CISM
14 78 (0.92%) Master's Degree
15 64 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
16 51 (0.60%) AWS Certification
17 46 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
18 39 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 37 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 32 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 542 (6.37%) Data Quality
2 367 (4.31%) QA
3 320 (3.76%) PMO
4 282 (3.31%) GDPR
5 155 (1.82%) NIST
6 125 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 107 (1.26%) IFRS
8 98 (1.15%) SLA
9 94 (1.10%) Accessibility
10 91 (1.07%) GRC
11 78 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 61 (0.72%) GAAP
13 58 (0.68%) PCI DSS
14 56 (0.66%) ISO 20022
15 37 (0.43%) SEPA
15 37 (0.43%) Solvency II
16 34 (0.40%) NCSC
17 29 (0.34%) PSD2
18 28 (0.33%) SOC 2
19 25 (0.29%) COBIT
System Software
1 258 (3.03%) Docker
2 183 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 58 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.31%) vSphere
6 20 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.18%) RACF
8 15 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.15%) NFS
10 11 (0.13%) Hyper-V
11 6 (0.070%) GPFS
11 6 (0.070%) KVM
12 5 (0.059%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.047%) IAG
13 4 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.035%) GridGain
14 3 (0.035%) SRDF
15 2 (0.023%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.023%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 381 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 274 (3.22%) Terraform
3 143 (1.68%) Ansible
4 83 (0.98%) Grafana
5 72 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 61 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 51 (0.60%) SCCM
8 46 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (0.29%) Control-M
10 18 (0.21%) vRealize
11 16 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
11 16 (0.19%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.16%) FortiGate
12 14 (0.16%) Nessus
13 13 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 13 (0.15%) Argo
13 13 (0.15%) OMEGAMON
14 11 (0.13%) CASB
14 11 (0.13%) Puppet
15 10 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1,098 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 704 (8.27%) Oracle
3 658 (7.73%) SAP
4 315 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 261 (3.07%) Databricks
6 212 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 186 (2.19%) Google
8 128 (1.50%) Workday
9 119 (1.40%) VMware
10 112 (1.32%) Splunk
11 107 (1.26%) IBM
12 92 (1.08%) Cisco
13 89 (1.05%) CyberArk
14 61 (0.72%) Citrix
15 60 (0.70%) OpenAI
16 55 (0.65%) Bloomberg
17 54 (0.63%) Ariba
17 54 (0.63%) Sage
18 50 (0.59%) Informatica
18 50 (0.59%) Murex